Psychological Themes In 'Finding Nemo'

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Throughout history the world has experienced different movie pictures, which incorporate different psychological themes. In Finding Nemo the audience is introduced to a clownfish named Marlin who deals with a multitude of psychological issues such as; stress, fear, and anxiety. Marlin refuses to experience the sea life, because it is so intimidating to him, and so he keeps his son from it. In the beginning , Marlin loses his wife to a shark, and then later on his son gets captured by a Scuba Diver. So, Marlin sets out on this adventure to find his son Nemo, and encounters another character named Dory, Dory deals with psychological issue of memory loss. Together they set out to find Marlin’s son Nemo, and along the way they bump into many different

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